What is the difference between validity and generalizability?
What will be an ideal response?
We must be concerned with three aspects of validity: measurement validity, generalizability, and causal validity (also known as internal validity). Each of these three aspects of validity is essential: Conclusions based on invalid measures, invalid generalizations, or invalid causal inferences will themselves be invalid. We will also be concerned with the goal of authenticity, a concern with reflecting fairly the perspectives of participants in a setting that we study.
Generalizability has two aspects. Sample generalizability refers to the ability to generalize from a sample, or subset, of a larger population to that population itself. This is the most common meaning of generalizability. Cross-population generalizability refers to the ability to generalize from findings about one group, population, or setting to other groups, populations, or settings. Cross-population generalizability can also be referred to as external validity. (Some social scientists equate the term external validity to generalizability, but in this book we restrict its use to the more limited notion of cross-population generalizability.)
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